Evan Rachel Wood Still Doesn’t Know ‘Westworld’ Ending After Cancellation: “It Keeps Me Up at Night”

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1. **Wood says -**

   > “It was devastating in a lot of ways because, first of all, they don’t tell us where the show is going. We were just always told, ‘We know how the show ends,’ when we started. They weren’t writing it as we went along. They had an idea, and we were all just on a bed of nails waiting to see and hear what the conclusion of this was. What it all meant.”

   > “We didn’t get to have that and so after building an arc and a character for almost 10 years and not getting the payoff at the end to see where it was all going — I think for us and the audience, it was awful in a lot of ways.”

   > “I asked the creators after we got canceled, ‘Can you please just tell me how you’re going to end?’ And they wouldn’t tell me. I think because, I don’t know, maybe somehow, someway, in some iteration we’ll get to finish it, but I still don’t know. It does still keep me up at night.”

2. Me too, Evan Rachel Wood, me too.

3. Show really went off the rails after that first season IMO.

4. It really doesn’t matter where the story was going from the final episode, because once you get to the point where humans are literally extinct, nobody cares what happens to the robots who inherit the ashes.

   It was so bizarre how the last couple of seasons killed off every human character, and in many cases replaced them with robot lookalikes, so that the story was just about different factions of robots fighting amongst each other.

   It almost felt like the writers were robots themselves, and making pro-robot propaganda.

5. Unpopular opinion, they should have finished the damn show. Evan Rachel Wood was amazing.

6. They should have ended at first maybe two seasons, they were too ambitious with everything after that.

7. Weird the writers won’t tell the ending if it was planned. Real Yu Suzuki “I’LL FINISH IT WHEN I CAN/ABLE TO!” hours.

8. I’ll never understand how the showrunners thought having her make several clones of herself (that look exactly like other characters) was a smart decision. The first season was near perfect, and they follow it up with the most confusing and convoluted storyline imaginable.

   That really had lightning in a bottle and completely fumbled after the first season.

9. that show was a well made high budget rubbish

10. With The OA and Westworld it’s no wonder I don’t sleep well

11. Whew, that is some title.

12. I sleep like a baby since season 2 pretty much ended the story.

13. When we were watching this my bf said it’s better to look at it as a mini series, since season 1 really holds up on its own. I enjoyed what I watched and it didn’t get tarnished for me.

    But I do understand how strange that must be for ERW, she was really great in that 1st season. I think the writers need to get off the high horse and tell her the ending, it’s kinda silly to me. She committed so much to it why wouldn’t they??

14. Damm even Rachel Wood doesn’t know

15. Same, Evan Rachel Wood, same.

16. I still don’t have a clue what happened in season 3 !!

17. I know I’m in the minority but I have loved every single season of this series.

    I’m still invested knowing I’m watching simulations play out – I still want to see what happens in the simulation. I feel like the show did a good job with how mankind will likely be replaced by superior consciousness

18. I don’t think they had an ending

19. Season 4 was absolutely pointless. It’s like they were trying to do something like Portal and Metal Gear Solid.

20. Doesnt look like anything to me

21. Who’s going to break it to her that it;s just a TV show? If I were her I’d be more upsest about the giant paycheck each week that HBO cancelled than the show.

22. My impression of Westworld is basically they had the first season planned and that was it. I haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve heard the show basically covers of the gist of it. I think once the show was a hit, they were put in an uncomfortable position of adding onto the universe when there probably wasn’t much planning to do so.

    I feel the same way about the Matrix movies and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Solid first movie and then a rush to worldbuild so they could work off the unexpected success of the series.

23. I had such high hopes for this show

24. Hosts were the underdog in season 1 and everyone wanted the hosts to win. After that, hosts had a leg up and were effectively superior to humans in every way so there was no significant challenge to overcome. It was inevitable that the hosts would thrive over humans which took the guessing and mystery out of the story.

25. Unpopular opinion here: I thought all 4 seasons were amazing and loved how in the end it’s sort of a loop. I thought it was a great ending as it is.

26. Oh the things that keep celebrities up at night

27. There was so much to work with from within the park. So many characters to explore. If they had slowed the plot down just a bit and made getting off the island the end of the series, it might have become an all time great. I was willing to along for the weird ride of the later seasons, but one and two were so different and interesting. I wanted more of the parks, and I’m forever a touch bitter we didn’t get that.

28. Season 4 had good moments but I felt Dolores dragged it down

29. I mean, I thought _I_ was in the dark, but not even Rachel Wood knows!

30. It was big confusy for my lit brainy. Make head hurt so I big mad. I no watch after s1 cause they no show as many boobies. – average viewer

31. Spoiler alert: The androids win.

32. The show just keeps sucking for a while longer while there are surprisingly no boobies anymore.

33. Tried watching season 2 about twice. Completely forgot this show existed. I think it lost itself for sure. Season 1 was REALLY great tv- I don’t think anybody knew what was going on in S2.

34. I like all seasons, make a game or comic or animated bit if you can’t get a live action ending

    Oh nvm Zaslav has the keys to the house

35. Stopped watching after S2E1.

    Took a dive the moment they left the park.

36. It got a little weird and went off the rails, but it felt like it was working toward a finale we never got. I want an ending too.

37. Whatever the ending was, I guarantee you no one in the audience would have understood it.

38. Everyone saying they should have ended the show after leaving the park is delusional. If the entire show were self contained in the park, we’d have nothing but the host uprising and the show would have been a limited series leaving more questions than answers. Can’t win either way

39. They set up for a great final season too. Everyone goes back to Westworld for 1 final game where the androids can die permanently.

40. What that show accidentally proved is that there’s an appetite for, essentially, _Game of Thrones_ set in medieval Japan. I’m over here waiting!

41. First season was great. I lost some interest after moving out of the park.

42. Westworld is a masterclass in how to ruin a great idea

43. I can’t stand her as a person at all but season 1 of that show was really awesome, I don’t know what happened after that though lol

44. The whole shogun world was such a gigantic missed opportunity. It would be cool if you had westworld and shogun world as seperate entities, and completely evolving on it’s own jn their own parks, to finally meeting each other towards the end.